I recently wondered: why don’t AI chats have a "Next page" button to load a new batch of the source materials to generate the answer from? Without such button, AI answers feel like a small window, a scratch on the surface. You don't have depth, perspective, sources to select for the answer generation.
The answer on this question from a mainsteam AI chat was that such a button was in AI chats when they were tested on the public in the early days of their existence but people didn't use it prefering to ask follow-up questions instead.
Really? Was it a sufficient reason to remove that button, or were there other reasons as well? Like, for example, deliberately giving an answer that has "enough" information to support a certain narrative? Or hiding competitors and competing narratives? We'll probably never know for sure.
After some digging, I found out that you can tool up and create a LLM wrapper with its own RAG to be able to have such button in your own AI-chat app. But why would you need such hassle if you can just have a desktop app that provides a "next page" button by feeding web search results into a mainstream AI chat?
I've made a small research and haven't found such an app. What I found was a buch of SERP APIs that could be used for building a custom AI-chat app. I found a bunch of browser extensions that come close but still needed manual copying and pasting from a web search results page to a chosen LLM.
That is why I built Nextpage - a cross-platform desktop app (Electron). Search on one side (Google, Bing, or Yandex). Chat on the other (DeepSeek, ChatGPT, or Perplexity). You search like a normal person, including page 2, 3, whatever the engine still gives you. Click a result and you stay on the results list. The app resolves the real URL (including the usual redirect wrappers), grabs the title and snippet, and appends them into the chat input as a source block.
This gives you a surrogate "Next page" button for your favorite AI-chat. With this app, the model does not pick the sources, you do.
It gives you the best of two worlds: the depth and perspective of a web search and the reasonong capabilities of a LLM.
Feel free to try get it from Github: https://github.com/OlegIGalkin/Nextpage
And let me know what you think about the problem of the missing "Next page" button in AI chats.
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